We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.

Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often people get offended by it.

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.